HEARTFELT

 

Endeavors

Must be

Heartfelt 

To conqueror

Self-doubt

 

 

PUSH HANDS

 

Push Hands

Change with

Change

Starts with

Stillness of

Application

INSIGHTFUL

 

Tai Chi gesture

Carries a message

Make it insightful

Not spiteful

 

 

SLOW SET

 

Slow Set

Isolation causes

Inspiration

Resulting in

Insightful

Gesture

 

SELF-DEFENSE

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Ward-off

Rollback/press

Push is

Self-defense

When challenged

With desire

 

 

 

PUSH HANDS

 

Push Hands

Spirit chooses

Gesture

Application

Changes with

Change

 

PRACTICE

 

Slow Set

Practice

Like a pear

Taking time 

To ripen

Containing a seed 

Which in time

Becomes

A new practice

 

EPIPHANIES

 

Secret to

Tai Chi epiphanies

Compassion

For the art

Prudent practice

Ethics in

Endeavors 

 

 

SINEW

 

Slow Set

Serpentine

Sinew

Between

 Spirit/gravity

 

TAI CHI DEMO

 

Tai Chi demo

That is not

Heartfelt

Can be

Disheartening

 

PRACTICE

 

Good practice

Reels silk with

Next practice

Inspires

Insight into 

Previous practice

 

 

ONENESS

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Attain oneness

Via heartfelt

Gestures

 

COMPREHENSIVE

 

Slow Set

Subtle

Kai He/weapons

Profound

Push hands

Comprehensive 

 

TENET

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Tenet

Be a tree

Leaves/gestures

Reaching/receiving

Roots/absorbing

 

CULTIVATE

 

Slow Set

Cultivate

Tai Chi gestures

That vortex

With Percussion 

Keep in mind

Tornados/whirlpools

 

 

  

CHANGE WITH CHANGE

 

Push hands

Applications

Change with change

Coming from

Unseen

Gestures

 

APPLICATIONS

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Good gestures

Are unimpeded

Resulting in

Uninterrupted

Applications 

 

YU PEI SHIH

 

Yu Pei Shih

Unites

Spirit/gravity

 

PARADOXICAL FIST

 

Tai Chi Chuan

Way of

Passive/virtuous

Paradoxical

Fist

 

 

ELASTICITY

 

I sing

Body

Elastic

Creating

Infinite

Gestures